The Kaiser Arrives
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March 3, 1958: A little more than a year before Hawaii becomes a state, Henry Kaiser takes the first step to putting his long-talked-about medical insurance plan into operation in the Hawaiian Islands. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. files papers with the Hawaiian Territorial Treasurer’s Office as a foreign corporation to do business on Oahu and Maui, Hawaii’s two most populous islands. At the time, the Kaiser plan, named after its founder Henry Kaiser, serves half a million people on the West Coast.
Today, Kaiser is the largest (in terms of people served) medical health care plan serving Hawaii residents.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — March 3rd
- 1634: Samuel Cole’s Inn opens to become the first tavern in Boston
- 1817: Alabama becomes a territory
- 1820: The Missouri Compromise is enacted by Congress
- 1842: The first U.S. child labor law, regulating working hours, is passed (MA)
- 1845: Florida becomes the 27th state
- 1849: Minnesota becomes a territory
- 1861: Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
- 1863: Idaho becomes a territory
- 1879: Geological Survey Director is authorized in the U.S. Deptartment of the Interior
- 1885: American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) is incorporated
- 1885: The first U.S. state establishes a permanent forest commission (CA)
- 1923: Time magazine publishes its first issue
- 1966: The rock group Buffalo Springfield forms
- 1978: Charles Chaplin’s remains are stolen in Switzerland
- 1989: Reagan aide Robert McFarlane is sentenced to a $20,000 fine and 2 years of probation for his part in the Iran-Contra scandal
- 1991: Los Angeles police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King - the incident is captured on amateur video
- 2002: Swiss voters approve a referendum for Switzerland to join the United Nations
- 2006 Former Republican Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham of California was sentenced by a federal judge to more than eight years in prison for corruption.
BORN ON THIS DAY — March 3rd
- 1838: George W Hill, astronomer
- 1847: Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
- 1853: Vincent Van Gogh, painter
- 1877: Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor
- 1911: Jean Harlow, actress
- 1921: Allen Ginsberg, beat generation poet
- 1923: Doc Watson, bluegrass singer, musician
- 1933: Princess Lee Radziwell Ross, (Jackie O’s sister)
- 1953: Dave Amato, rocker
- 1962: Jackie Joyner-Kersee, heptathele
- 1970: Julie Bowen, actress
- 1972: Brett Warren, country singer
- 1982: Jessica Biel , actress
